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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful & Entertaining Tracts, bound as Vol VII (actually spanning Vols. XVIII-XX), 1847

Chambers's Miscellany of Useful & Entertaining Tracts, bound as Vol VII (actually spanning Vols. XVIII-XX), 1847

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£35.00 - £35.00
£35.00
£35.00 - £35.00
£35.00

A charming bound copy of Chambers Miscellany containing a wealth of informative essays and features to interest Victorian readers. Still an entertaining read today.

Chambers's Miscellany of Useful & Entertaining Tracts. This volume contains tracts 151-177.

Features 27 Tracts in total on a diverse range of subjects including: Elizabethan Poets; Sir William Jones; History of the Jews in England; Anecdotes of the Early Painters; Treasures of the Earth; The Magic Flute; Why the Sea is Salt; British Conquest of India; Story of Jacquard; Fireside Education; Poems of Birds; Life of Count Rumford; The Crusades; Women's Trials in Humble Life; Overland Journey to India; Moral Tales, from the French; History of the Bastile; Pearls and Pearl-Fisheries; Poetical Selection; Newton (and other major Scientific figures); Hints to Workmen; The Guerilla; Speculative Manias; Four Months in Cape Colony; English Proverbs; Scotch Proverbs; Wonders of the Telescope; Jim Cronin, An Irish Tale; and; Songs of Home and Fatherland. 

Published by W. and R. Chambers, Edinburgh. Presumed first edition. Undated, but believed to have been published in 1847. The tracts have been bound in to the volume without any title page or contents list, but we have been able to date them from matching to another copy held by University of California library, Santa Barbara (considered as being Vol XIX for tracts 161-168, meaning that this collection can be considered to span volumes XVIII - XX.

A very good hardback, smartly bound with leather spine and corners, and marbled paper over boards. Gilt decoration to spine, with black morocco title label. Light scuffing and bumping. Soundly bound. Illustrated.

Text is clean and bright throughout with light scattered spotting. A handsome volume.

Text in English.

No overall numbering system, but with features numbered individually.

Dimensions: Each volume approximately 181mm  x 118mm x 40mm.

Weight approximately 610g (unpacked).